Background
Ellison was born in Bradford, attending Saint Joseph"s Catholic College, Bradford, then a girls" grammar school, and studied at Street Hilda"s College, Oxford.
Ellison was born in Bradford, attending Saint Joseph"s Catholic College, Bradford, then a girls" grammar school, and studied at Street Hilda"s College, Oxford.
University of Oxford.
A former Barnet London Borough Councillor, she contested the Barnsley East by-election, 1996 and the Tottenham by-election, 2000, in both cases finishing in third place, and contested Barnsley East and Mexborough in 1997 and Pendle in the general election of 2005. She was selected as Conservative parliamentary candidate for Battersea in September 2006 following an open primary held at the Battersea Arts Centre. Ellison was elected in the 2010 election with a majority of 5977.
In Parliament she has served on the Backbench Business Committee and Work and Pensions Committee
Ellison was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health in October 2013.
She described providing political direction to the National Health Service as "a bit like being on a high wire without a Netto at times, it can be quite exciting" in a meeting with the Tory Reform Group in 2014. According to The Observer she also said I don"t know how much any of you realise that with the Lansley act we pretty much gave away control of the National Health Serviceā¦ we have some important strategic mechanisms but we don"t really have day-to-day control." which was seized upon by critics as evidence that the government"s National Health Service reforms had not succeeded.
In January 2015 she announced the government was proposing introducing a ban on advertising on cigarette packaging before the next election, to some surprise amongst colleagues in the Conservative Party
Ellison lives in Balham with her partner John, and enjoys and participates in music and walking.
55th United Kingdom Parliament. 56th United Kingdom Parliament.